Robert Creeley

Ekbert Faas

Irving Layton

The events covered by the letters collected here start with Robert Creeley's discovery of Irving Layton and focus on the turbulent circumstances surrounding the publication (by Creeley's Divers Press in Majorca) of In the Midst of My Fever, Layton's first book of poems not published at his own expense and the one that established him as a major poet. Irving Layton and Robert Creeley also recounts the cementing of avant-garde contacts between Canada and the United States through magazines such as Origin, Contact, and CIV/n.

The Complete Correspondence, 1953-1978

Irving Layton and Robert Creeley

Maria Trombacco

In this biography Ekbert Faas pioneers a new kind of "life-writing." It tells its stories through the emotions, thoughts, and, above all, language of the dramatis personae, exchanging the authorial omniscience of traditional biography for an utter fidelity to sources. Allowing for contradictory viewpoints, anecdotes are told and re-told, letting Creeley reveal himself beneath the myths created by self-invention, wishful thinking, and, sometimes, distortion. Excerpts from autobiographical writings by the poet's first wife, Ann McKinnon, complete this intriguingly colourful and complex picture.

A Biography

Ann MacKinnon

The first fifty years in the life of a great American poet.

Ekbert (York University Faas, Toronto)

The Genealogy of Aesthetics

A Novel

Woyzeck's Head

Ted Hughes

The selected critical writings by Ted Hughes and two interviews.

The Unaccommodated Universe : with Selected Critical Writings by Ted Hughes & Two Interviews

Euripides, Shakespeare, Goethe

Tragedy and After

Ekbert Faas

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